[1394] Re: FireWire Problem

[David DelMonte]

How do you "reset firmware"?

Thanks


On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 03:22 AM, support at fwdepot wrote:

> Did you he have do the following:
>
> 1) reboot machine
> 2) zap pram
> 3) reboot machine
> 4) reset open firmware
>
> Without another firewire device to test it will be hard for you to 
> determine
> whether the port is live or dead but if the cdrw is still functioning, 
> after
> performing the above it should either work or confirm that the port is 
> dead
> (which we doubt) - the problem you described sounds more like a 
> probably
> media problem than an actual firewire problem, but the force quit may 
> have
> caught the firewire port in an interim state which is why it is 
> frozen...
>
>
>> I have a 550mHz G4 Powerbook that I bought in December
>> of 2001. I have a 6 month old external cd-rw drive
>> connected to the FireWire port. I use Toast Lite to
>> burn CDs. Two weeks ago I was copying an audio cd and
>> it was almost finished with the verification process
>> when it "froze" -- not exactly froze. It seemed to be
>> still working, but when it was in the same
>> verification position for about 30 minutes I figured
>> something was wrong (it normally takes about 10
>> minutes total for me to copy one cd). I was unable to
>> cancel, so I force-quit the application. Ever since
>> that time, my computer is not reading anything
>> connected to my firewire port. I had a friend of my
>> who is a mac-guru take a look at it and he couldn't
>> tell what was wrong, but said he had been reading
>> about a potential problem with the firewire ports on
>> some of the earlier models of the G4 Powerbook. He
>> also said it might be my cd-rw drive. I don't have any
>> other firewire devices, so I'm wondering if there is
>> any way of determining if it is a problem with the
>> computer or the peripheral.
>>
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